Ask Stacy Blackman

Dear Mrs Stacy Blackman,
I read all your comments on the BeattheGMAT and the Manhattan GMAT web-site, and I find that your advices are just too generous and wise, Thank you for all;
I have the impression that every candidate to MBA finds himself in a different situation from others because the experiences and the backgrounds vary.
This is why I am writing to you and I'd appreciate you taking a time to answer my question about essays;

First, I am 32 years old woman from Morocco. I completed a Master degree in chemical engineering in a moroccan university in 1998 ( curriculums similar to those of French universities), and worked for eigth years ( 1998 through 2006) in an R&D division of the biggest private mining group in Morocco. I got a promotion to a R&D project manager in 2004 to 2006. I still believe that my career was quitely focused on technical aspects in research and development.
Now I am really interested in a full time MBA in a US university ( like Texas A&M) to get first steps in a new career as consultant in strategy in marketing or business intelligence for industries in my country; I have done a lot of work in technlogy watching and business intelligence within the group I worked for. My country is an emerging one and needs and needs qualified staffs.

Therfore, when I am about thinking of leadership and decision making situations to describe in my essays, I have few options compared to people who had managerial carreers.
I am convinced that leadership can be proved in every situation. However, I wonder if businss schools would appreciate to look at particular leadership experiences in research ad development where outcomes are first ideas and creativity, then money;
Secondly, I was not really involved in associations work and feel unconfortable when I hear that business schools like to much to hear about that kind of experiences. I would like to be sincere in my application, yet doing my best to fit MBA requirements ;

can you please comment my concerns about essays ?

I need to add more informations here, As you would have noticed, I am from morocco and english is my second foreign langage after french ( arabic is my mother tongue). In my plan to improve my english, I just resigned from work in july 2006 and came to the united states for six months english immersion training. By the same time, I am working on the GMAT which I took once and got unsatisfied with results due to a poor verbal section. Now that I am working hard on it, I can say that it's quietly better. Those are challenges I am facing, but It's just exciting to go through.

I applogize for the lenght of my stimulus, I am sure of your generous attitude;

Best regards